Frederick Richard Say

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Frederick Richard Say

Frederick Richard Say (* around 1805, † around 1868) was a portrait painter and lithographer in London .

Life and works

Frederick Richard Say was a son of the steel engraver William Say . He studied in the art school of Benjamin Robert Haydon . Richard Bright made use of the anatomical knowledge he acquired there in his Reports of Medical Cases , on the illustrations of which Frederick Richard Say and his father also collaborated.

Say was active in London and sent from 1826 to 1854 the exhibitions of the Royal Academy of Arts . The National Portrait Gallery in London, the Oriental Club in London, the Town Hall in Calcutta , the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge and Christ Church College in Oxford have portraits by Say. The portrait of Edward Bulwer-Lytton is said to be his best work on the website of the National Portrait Gallery .

Web links

Commons : Frederick Richard Say  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ In various publications you can find various information on the year of birth and death; Steven J. Peitzman, Dropsy, Dialysis, Transplant , Baltimore 2007, ISBN 978-0-8018-8734-5 , p. 26 ( limited preview in the Google book search) gives z. B. the year of death 1860.
  2. ↑ The CD edition of Thieme-Becker states, obviously erroneously, that he is a son of the Hungarian painter Géza Say .
  3. ↑ Domenico Bertoloni Meli: Visualizing Disease , Chicago and London 2017, ISBN 978-0-226-11029-5 , p. 168 ( limited preview in Google book search)
  4. ↑ Steven J. Peitzman, Dropsy, Dialysis, Transplant , Baltimore 2007, ISBN 978-0-8018-8734-5 , p. 26 ( limited preview in Google book search)
  5. ↑ Frederick Richard Say at www.npg.org.uk
personal data
SURNAME Say, Frederick Richard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Portrait painter
DATE OF BIRTH around 1805
DATE OF DEATH around 1868